Comments on: You had me at hello.

By: BeingDiabetic.co.nz | Aaron: My favourite diabetic resources.

BeingDiabetic.co.nz | Aaron: My favourite diabetic resources. — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:12:58 +0000

[...] that you want to know about this is in this post by Nic and at the Log For Life website. Now that have an iPhone this site has become even more [...]

By: Misizith

Misizith — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:56:50 +0000

Hi all,
I’m currently trialling pocket compass with Roche.(Thanks heaps guys). Loving using its. Uses a palm pilot. But what I can’t figure out yet is the format that the data shows up on when downloaded. Does anyone use this? Has anyone looked at SiNovo or tried it? Also Niko what’ Diabetes Pilot like- is it available on a palm pilot?
I’m not so keen on paying for an iphone but don’t want to be carrying round a notebook all the time either and can’t use the web for work. I guess what I’m asking about is what kind of things do the reports show-raw data and trends and can these be emailed off to the diabetes team to look at?

I’ve also looked at Track3- emailed them heard nothing back.

Looking forward to any replies.

ta!

By: Nic

Nic — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:20:15 +0000

Hi Niko – I’d not heard of Diabetes Pilot, will put it on my to do list to check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.

By: Niko

Niko — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:17:05 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve looked at their website and watched the video you posted but it does not appear that Log for Life contains a food database, which is a real bummer unless you’ve memorized the carb count of everything you are going to eat, us another app or carry along a separate book to look it up in.

For now I’ll continue to use Diabetes Pilot, which is also has an iPhone App and synchs over wi-fi with the stand alone desktop application if you want it to.

By: Nic

Nic — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:45:29 +0000

Karen, you make a really good point… these programs will all be superceded by pumps which also store your glucose levels and into which you can add other notes like exercise, type of food consumed. Having it all in one place makes perfect sense. My pump doesn’t do this though so for now it’s bits here and there unfortunately!

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:57:36 +0000

On the most recent Medtronic Pump (Veo) you are able to enter into the pump information about other events which when you download the pump gives you a great picture of what is going on. I’ve used it alot when working out how to manage excercise events. It is so easy to track the before and after!

The reports can show you the following:
Excercise events
Insulin delivery (basal and bolus)
Carb consumed
Blood glucose value (both when you use the wizard feature or not)
Meal events (once again both when you use the wizard feature or not – e.g. extra carb before excercise that you don’t bolus for)
Any insulin delivered by injection
Or any other event – e.g a marker for a sick day etc.

Very cool

By: W. Andrew Loe III

W. Andrew Loe III — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:58:27 +0000

For the technically saavy I wrote some import tools in Ruby that pull from my Dexcom and OneTouch Ultra.

http://github.com/loe/log-for-life-importer

By: Nic

Nic — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:40:43 +0000

Hi Erin – the only other one I tried out (ages ago, back in July 08) is Sugar Tracker (see my post: http://www.beingdiabetic.co.nz/2008-07-21/sugar-tracker-for-iphone-meh/). However giving it the benefit of the doubt, it may have improved out of sight by now.

Cheers for the review on Glucose Buddy, Tory – will have to check that one out too (and indeed if time permits I’ll make my way through Erin’s list, if they’re free). It’s the simplicity of Log for Life that I love.

By: Tory

Tory — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:34:37 +0000

I use Glucose Buddy (hadn’t heard of Log for Life before this) since I found it as an iPhone app and downloaded it – it’s a free one. I find it really handy, and would probably surmise that all of these apps are hugely helpful. I guess some more than others. I better give Log for Life a go so I can give a more accurate appraisal!

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:50:35 +0000

I did some research on diabetic iphone apps in the weekend as I’m getting one for work. I haven’t got the iphone yet so haven’t tried any out – but the demos looked good, and the good news is they are either free, or just have a one-off charge when you download it rather than a monthly cost.

The main difference I found was that half of them don’t record exercise which is a biggy for me. Here’s the list of ones I found:
Diabeteslog
Islet
Diamedic
UTS Diabetes
Glucose Buddy
Glucose Charter
If anyone has a chance to play with any of these I’d be keen to know any feedback, and once I get my iphone and can start playing I’ll let you know what I find too